Riverbed Solutions & Services
Amer-tel, Inc. is a provider of Riverbed products, services and solutions that improve application performance across WANs via WAN Optimization, reducing latency and bandwidth constraints in delivering applications to multiple locations across long distances.
Riverbed Portfolio: Capabilities
- Riverbed Steelhead
- Riverbed APM (AppResponse\AppInternals\Portal)
- Riverbed NPM (NetAuditor\NetExpress)
Riverbed implementation
Ameri-tel's Riverbed consultants successfully deploy, configure and test Riverbed’s core suite of products in end-user production environments. Riverbed products and services in this area of expertise include:
- Riverbed Steelhead
- Riverbed Steelhead Healthcheck
- Riverbed Steelhead Mobile (Steelhead Mobile Controller and licenses)
- Riverbed Central Management Console
- Riverbed Interceptor
- Riverbed Steelhead Appliance Deployment & Management
- Riverbed Steelhead Mobile Installation & Configuration
- Riverbed Steelhead Advanced Deployment & Troubleshooting
- Riverbed Central Management Console Configuration & Operations
- Riverbed Jumpstart Service
Riverbed Professional Services:
- Strategic application performance infrastructure roadmap planning
- Application and network planning, assessments, baselining, and dependency mapping
- Business readiness for cloud, application, network, and WAN optimization deployments
- Specialized planning and design expertise in data center migration consolidation and data migration
- State-of-the-art modeling and simulation to compare the impact of different technology designs on end-to-end behavior
- Implementation services that focus on best practice design, setup, configuration, and knowledge transfer
- Resident consulting services, where our product experts provide hands-on, daily oversight of Riverbed solutions
- Technical education services to help customers build proficiency and confidence in Riverbed solutions
- Technology adoption services to accelerate the widespread use of Riverbed solutions
- Resident consulting services, where our product experts provide hands-on, daily oversight of Riverbed solutions
- Proactive assessments of Riverbed infrastructure with recommendations for improving performance
- Technical education services to help customers build proficiency and confidence in Riverbed solutions
- Proactive performance assessments to identify trends and prevent future issues from occurring
Riverbed Network Performance Management (NPM)
Ameri-tel's Riverbed consultants successfully assess new and existing visibility frameworks and reporting tools (enterprise and custom), and understand how to integrate the Riverbed suite of NPM products into those frameworks with a deep understanding and exceptional working knowledge of the Riverbed NPM solution. Riverbed products and services included in this area of expertise include:
- Riverbed Steelhead (SNMP alerting, enabling NetFlow and capturing/interpreting data)
- Riverbed NPM Suite: Profiler, Gateway, Sensor, Pilot and Shark Appliance
- Riverbed Steelhead Appliance Deployment & Management
- Riverbed NPM Configuration & Operations (flow and packet based)
Riverbed Health Check and Optimization Assessment
Ameri-tel's Riverbed consultants will analyze logs, statistics, bandwidth utilization and configuration to ensure optimal performance, avoid performance degradation as your network and applications change, and mitigate issues before users experience performance issues and problems.
- Monthly, Quarterly, or On Demand
- Review logs and other steelhead statistics
- Review Steelhead Configuration
- Business goal and roadmap review with customer
- Bandwidth Utilization
- Review of Traffic for peak performance
- Assess the current physical topology of the Riverbed Steelhead appliance infrastructure.
- Assess the current Steelhead appliance and Central Management Controller (CMC) configuration. Provide recommendations for improvements based on the findings identified.
Release Management and Upgrade Service
- Deploy Software updates allow Steelheads to perform all the latest functions Integrate more seamlessly into your network Ability to accomplish your business objectives ahead of schedule.
- Updates to your entire Riverbed Solution Work within your change control process and provide documentation.
- Push Updates and Patches through a CMC or to individual sites
- Ensure that data stores in core sites are synchronizing
- All maintenance and software updates are performed by an Ameri-tel Riverbed Consultant
- Upgrades are performed in your test environment before yours, translating into new features and improved performance without downtime.